Hi all, to add to the argument made by Kyle:
> Am 03.06.2020 um 14:56 schrieb Kyle Evans <kev...@freebsd.org>: > As an aside, I'd appreciate it if other folks in this thread could > simply stop dumping all over the many many many hours of work that > were put into getting lua into shape to replace the high-quality forth > that was already in place. The reality is that lua won a popularity > contest long ago [outside of a FreeBSD context][ and lowers the barrier > to being able to hack on our loader menus, which should be viewed as a > great thing. I was equally annoyed at first because I happen to know a good deal of Forth (and use HP calculators ;-) and my reasoning was like „Lua is just as exotic as Forth so people need to learn the basics of a new language, anyway - why make *me* relearn everything?“ But in private conversation at one EuroBSDCon I learned that the „bus factor“ of the old bootloader (i.e. how many people have to be overrun by a bus to make that part of the project unmaintainable because there is zero knowledge left) was probably 2. Which is a perfectly good reason to replace a piece of software with a new one that hopefully more people understand. As for the choice of language I am actually pretty agnostic and willing to learn whatever is needed to get a particular task done. Just my 2ct. Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Kaiserallee 13a 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de i...@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Egeling, Daniel Lienert, Fabian Stein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
